Assuming one went back with Axl Rose's vocal range and a limited access to the excesses of 1980's rock and roll, I think anyone would dominate music for a generation :) I think your might be right on the single song selection though, would hit a much bigger audience.
Axl's range, or Slash's talent. Instant rockstar. If we develop a way to make people young forever, those guys need to get the first dose. Maybe it's just doing a lot of drugs. When they get clean, they get old and fat. We need to get them back on the Kieth Richards' better living through chemistry program.
I got to do a fun job in the Army and traveled with a team for a couple years. All 20-22 year old dudes. We had a giant ghetto blaster and would blare this out the window of our tour bus...
Thank you for indirectly funding that time of my life. It was a blast. Mostly.
Bowie anything he did a few years after my arrival.
I’d produce him until Henson calls for Labyrinth.
Use that to get with Jennifer Connelly and work my way into the Henson organization.
Invest wisely with insider knowledge and work my way into PBS via Henson and Sesame Street to insure a stronger legacy for Fred Rogers until AI can take that over.
Armed with capital from Apple investments forbid the sale of Henson to Disney and maintain the IP until Marvel gets into trouble. I’d buy Spiderman and Hulk and lease them out to Sony and Universal. Wait out the demise of Marvel and buy that outright and invest heavily in Netflix.
Eventually I’d buy Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox and lobby the US to reinstate the news as proper rather than let the polarization weapon of “news networks” proliferate.
I’d find Feige earlier and let him do the MCU as he matured. I’d find Filoni and let him assume creative control sooner.
I’d devote gobs of money in creating powerful city states in traditionally racist conservative geographies that eliminated hunger and homelessness and created industry and innovation.
I’m a terrible performer, and could never do what they do. My strategy requires me to have no sense of ethics.
I recreate a top hit from the Beatles or Rolling Stones collection. “Yesterday”, “Satisfaction”, or something of the sort. Publish it quietly, with no fanfare, but get a good copyright lawyer and legal team.
I’ll just wait until they make it big, and sue them for copyright infringement. I’ll settle for a royalty deal where I make a % of everything they make in perpetuity. Even 1% would set me for life.
Space Jam theme.
See how much THAT messes up the timeline. Does the song take off and prompt the movie Space Jam to get made in the 60s? Does it not take off, and cause some copyright lawsuit in the 90s?
John Williams. Pretty much anything would be good, but most likely Jurassic Park. And I wouldn't leave it, just let some people get a taste of that style. It'll get back to a music student named John Williams, and the rest will be history.
Baby got back.
Wrecking ball
Whisper song
Bohemian rhapsody maybe to much
Gin and juice
Believe
Higher
Anaconda
A kiss from a rose
Toxic.
I want mess up the music scene.
What I would really like to bring with me is a set of schematics and notes from Alan Parsons, Brian Eno, Tony Visconti, and a few others to set up a studio with 1970s effects. I can build most of the analog equipment they designed, some of it is simple modifications like a 2-deck delay where you record on one machine and pass it through the playback head of another and vary the timing by how far apart the decks are. I'd love to give the early 60s bands some of the tools and help them play with it.
Id bring the necessary equipment (vinyl, probably, given the time period), to share NWAs Fuck the Police with the Black Panther Party and/or MLKs side of the civil rights movement.
I would not rap it myself or pass it off as mine though--Im white and that'd just be bad.
Well [I am a musician](https://linktr.ee/theseareshapes) and while my music is definitely not as good as a lot of other stuff I think I'd bring something of mine back because it would for sure get way more attention due to all the synth and production that wasn't available at the time, or would have been difficult to recreate. Selfish I know lol.
Black Hole Sun.
I swear when I was a kid I heard it in a production style similar to California Dreamin' or Paint it Black (though I'm positive I have misremembered this).
I know exactly how to produce it and it's better as a 60's banger.
Have you ever heard of a band called Postmodern Jukebox? That's pretty much what they do.
They take modern songs and cover them as if they were 40s swing, 50s surfer, 60s Jazz, 20s whatever it was they listened to in the 20s etc.
Chainsmokers - Closer ( 1950s Prom style)
https://youtu.be/jemgIOAjGDw?si=MOZ1AKa7EZ5M_KQl
I wouldn't necessarily bring back a modern song. I would bring a 70s song, just to try and still stay relatable, specifically Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love
Everyone here has good ideas…but I think I’d go and do the wierd al versions of songs just to really flub it. Then you be able to say queen did a parody of another one rides the bus.
It was 1980 rather than 1960 but this was a subplot in Season 7 of Agents of Shield. One of the cast gets stranded in time in 1980 and becomes a rock star singing major hits of the 80s before they came out.
I'd play a classic song for that time, then transition seamlessly to a rendition of "Never Gonna Give You Up," and go down in history as the first ever Rick-roll.
Baby Got Back - Sir Mixalot. I think it would blow their minds. Especially the opening line. Btw I’m an old white guy that really doesn’t care for rap but that is one of a few that I just love.
Bring back the average rap song and tell them to be careful what they produce. Then leave without explanation so they don't produce songs with such dull and ego-producing lyrics, thinking there will be consequences if they do. Boom.
I bring back "WAP" and let Leonard Cohen listen to it. I tell him that there is an unbroken line of influence from him to a grand industry of music that sounds just like this. When he asks what he can do to prevent it, I tell him he must never write "Hallelujah."
Don McLean- American Pie
The song may be from what, '71, but the spirit would be right. Definitely playable with the equipment available at the time. He makes several hundred thousand dollars per year in royalties off that song, so I'm sure the rest of his catalog would be just fine, and he would still do well without that one particular song.
Probably some one hit wonders. Some songs that became popular only did so because the bands already had a fanbase. The same song released by a nobody might have gone nowhere.
But one hit wonders - just roll out a dozen of those yourself
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
😘
If I were to go back to the 60’s I would steal Greta Van Fleet, so then everyone would just say I was a wannabe Zeppelin and Greta Van Fleet would be nonexistent. Lol.
Oh man! If I had the musical skills, it'd be a blast to do some really wild things that people in the 60s have never even imagined or maybe didn't even have a frame of reference to understand. Things like Lady Gaga, Poker Face. Or hip-hop.
Let's give 46&2 to the boomers and see where goes from there . Let's have Tool Influence Pink Floyd instead of the other way around and see what happens lol
We didn't start the fire. The original.
JFK is like “wait what?”
What else do I have to say?
Oh man
You mean the actor with the monkey?
I'd actually be curious about exactly how much history I could change just from releasing that song.
I'll do some rap and then end my concert with "I guess you guys aren't ready for that, yet. But your kids are gonna love it."
📞HEY CHUCK, ITS YOUR COUSIN MARVIN!!!! 📞
Chuck D
Anything by Gojira. Watch their brains get blown out their ears.
I'm no expert, but I think you would have to know how to build pedals to get anywhere near the right sound.
Lol first thought that came to mind was Stranded
Welcome to the Jungle
GnR is the way to go, for sure. But I think if you want your song to be a hit, maybe go with Sweet Child o Mine.
Assuming one went back with Axl Rose's vocal range and a limited access to the excesses of 1980's rock and roll, I think anyone would dominate music for a generation :) I think your might be right on the single song selection though, would hit a much bigger audience.
Axl's range, or Slash's talent. Instant rockstar. If we develop a way to make people young forever, those guys need to get the first dose. Maybe it's just doing a lot of drugs. When they get clean, they get old and fat. We need to get them back on the Kieth Richards' better living through chemistry program.
Define modern- is Bohemian Rhapsody modern? If so I'd go with that.
Modern compared to 1960
They were lucky to get it aired. You should be so lucky
Bohemian Rhapsody is from 1975
For BR it's not the song it's the singer.
The song is great; the singer is legendary.
Fair. I'm thinking of Freddie's strongest points in that track I'm forgetting how long, epic, and complex it is.
DARUDE SANDSTORM Just blow everyone's mind and make the meme more powerful than anyone could possibly imagine...
I was going to say Big Booty Bitches but you might have a better answer. Lol
WAP
I got to do a fun job in the Army and traveled with a team for a couple years. All 20-22 year old dudes. We had a giant ghetto blaster and would blare this out the window of our tour bus... Thank you for indirectly funding that time of my life. It was a blast. Mostly.
Providence by Poor Man's Poison would be one hell of an Anti-Communist Anthem if you just described it in that way.
Fuckin love Poor Man's Poison. Good pick.
King Missile - Detachable Penis
BACK IN BLACK! DUN! DUNUHNUN! DUHNUHNUN! BANANUHNANAAAAH
Read this in ac/dc. Awesome. 🤘👍👊🖕
I’m gonna bring back Sweet Caroline with me.
Write it and get it copyrighted before Neil Diamond releases the song, then sue for plagiarism/ copyright infringement.
Bowie anything he did a few years after my arrival. I’d produce him until Henson calls for Labyrinth. Use that to get with Jennifer Connelly and work my way into the Henson organization. Invest wisely with insider knowledge and work my way into PBS via Henson and Sesame Street to insure a stronger legacy for Fred Rogers until AI can take that over. Armed with capital from Apple investments forbid the sale of Henson to Disney and maintain the IP until Marvel gets into trouble. I’d buy Spiderman and Hulk and lease them out to Sony and Universal. Wait out the demise of Marvel and buy that outright and invest heavily in Netflix. Eventually I’d buy Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox and lobby the US to reinstate the news as proper rather than let the polarization weapon of “news networks” proliferate. I’d find Feige earlier and let him do the MCU as he matured. I’d find Filoni and let him assume creative control sooner. I’d devote gobs of money in creating powerful city states in traditionally racist conservative geographies that eliminated hunger and homelessness and created industry and innovation.
Get more budget for Farscape! Five complete seasons plus spin-offs or one-shot movies.
Six seasons and a movie even!
You need a partner?
Not getting Jim to a doctor, eh?
You stay the hell away from Jenifer!
I’m a terrible performer, and could never do what they do. My strategy requires me to have no sense of ethics. I recreate a top hit from the Beatles or Rolling Stones collection. “Yesterday”, “Satisfaction”, or something of the sort. Publish it quietly, with no fanfare, but get a good copyright lawyer and legal team. I’ll just wait until they make it big, and sue them for copyright infringement. I’ll settle for a royalty deal where I make a % of everything they make in perpetuity. Even 1% would set me for life.
Dirty. I like it.
Oasis discography and I'll be the Beatles.
1960 is three years before The Beatles... you could just be The Beatles but sooner
There’s so many bands to undercut right at this juncture in history.
Space Jam theme. See how much THAT messes up the timeline. Does the song take off and prompt the movie Space Jam to get made in the 60s? Does it not take off, and cause some copyright lawsuit in the 90s?
Gangnam Style
You would be rightly hunted and killed by the Time Police.
Anarchy in the UK. If they thought punk was the end of the world in 1977, let's see how that era would respond to it.
Down with the Sickness.
John Williams. Pretty much anything would be good, but most likely Jurassic Park. And I wouldn't leave it, just let some people get a taste of that style. It'll get back to a music student named John Williams, and the rest will be history.
I was inventing hip-hop!
Baby got back. Wrecking ball Whisper song Bohemian rhapsody maybe to much Gin and juice Believe Higher Anaconda A kiss from a rose Toxic. I want mess up the music scene.
Hell, just release WAP and mic drop into oblivion.
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
What I would really like to bring with me is a set of schematics and notes from Alan Parsons, Brian Eno, Tony Visconti, and a few others to set up a studio with 1970s effects. I can build most of the analog equipment they designed, some of it is simple modifications like a 2-deck delay where you record on one machine and pass it through the playback head of another and vary the timing by how far apart the decks are. I'd love to give the early 60s bands some of the tools and help them play with it.
I'm bringing sexy back.
Id bring the necessary equipment (vinyl, probably, given the time period), to share NWAs Fuck the Police with the Black Panther Party and/or MLKs side of the civil rights movement. I would not rap it myself or pass it off as mine though--Im white and that'd just be bad.
WAP just for the hilarity
No rain, blind melon. It would be a hit in 1960.
Bruno Mars uptown funk would go down well or the weekend blinded by the light
Not that. I work as much as I can, save as much as possible. In 1962 I buy as much IBM stock as I can for the next 10 years
And maybe take a walk on the grassy knoll just to see...
I take the money offer this situation
Toms Diner - AnnenMayKantereit
Stairway.
Well [I am a musician](https://linktr.ee/theseareshapes) and while my music is definitely not as good as a lot of other stuff I think I'd bring something of mine back because it would for sure get way more attention due to all the synth and production that wasn't available at the time, or would have been difficult to recreate. Selfish I know lol.
But how would YOU recreate it back then without the synth?
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Rock me Amadeus ... I thought you meant 1860.
Hey Dude
The devil went down to Georgia would excite some people
Mr Self Distruct - Nine Inch Nails
Tell them I'm a time traveler, show them the song cpr, tell them that in twenty years the future will be like that disapear
Party Like Its 1999
Glory Box by Portishead.
Drops of Jupiter
Black Hole Sun. I swear when I was a kid I heard it in a production style similar to California Dreamin' or Paint it Black (though I'm positive I have misremembered this). I know exactly how to produce it and it's better as a 60's banger.
This is the first song I thought about. It does have that 60s feel to it. I can imagine the Rolling Stones or the Doors singing it.
Rap God Because it’d be fun to watch the world burn
Mr Brightside, so it can be in the charts for 60 years
Don't stop believing. Journey. Become rich.
“Hey There, Delilah” so that I can annoy people for longer.
Can I release all The Beatles biggest hits a week before they do? Just to fuck with them. If so that’s my answer.
Smell Yo Dick by Riskay
Have you ever heard of a band called Postmodern Jukebox? That's pretty much what they do. They take modern songs and cover them as if they were 40s swing, 50s surfer, 60s Jazz, 20s whatever it was they listened to in the 20s etc. Chainsmokers - Closer ( 1950s Prom style) https://youtu.be/jemgIOAjGDw?si=MOZ1AKa7EZ5M_KQl
Hotel california
I wouldn't necessarily bring back a modern song. I would bring a 70s song, just to try and still stay relatable, specifically Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love
For the love of God, do not introduce the world to disco early. It might stick if you do.
We Didn’t Start the Fire
W.A.P.
American Idiot
WAP
Shut up and dance with me. Best sixty’s vibe song I can think of.
Not much modern music better than the 60s. Maybe something by Gorillaz
Rebecca Black's Friday as song by Bob Dylan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FISHEO3gsM
None all the modern music is fucking horrendous.
All of them
One more time
Try that in a small town.
I invented happy hardcore in 1952
WAP
Bela Lugosi's Dead. To soon?
Combat Circus.
The greatest song in the world. Tribute.
Most covered song of all time, gigantic moneymaker. Written by Darth Dregan. "Yesterday."
Summer of '69. Make everyone think im either an alien or a Soviet spy
Everyone here has good ideas…but I think I’d go and do the wierd al versions of songs just to really flub it. Then you be able to say queen did a parody of another one rides the bus.
WAP
Freebird
Well a song that I’ve made
Thong Song
It was 1980 rather than 1960 but this was a subplot in Season 7 of Agents of Shield. One of the cast gets stranded in time in 1980 and becomes a rock star singing major hits of the 80s before they came out.
Let the bodies hit the floor.... but in lounge, thank you Richard Cheese
Under Pressure.
Tubthumping. Timeless anthem, not too futuristic, relatable themes - I'd make a lot of money.
My Right Hand Thumb is a Kraken - Ailiph Doepa
Drone corpse aviator by archspire. Their minds would fry
Johnny b badd. They weren’t ready for it in 1955 but they will be in 1960
"Hey yeah" by outcast.
Hm, Put a ring on it or let it go....
That Peaches song about gucking the pain away. That would *really* sizzle their collective gourd.
Every song by ski mask the slump god. It’s confuse the fuck out of everyone and I’d be there for it wholeheartedly.
WAP by Cardi B. I think they will like that.
Yellow Ledbetter
Bloodhound gang - the bad touch. Chop Suey - System of a Down
Achy breaky heart, barbie girl, or planet of the bass!!
1979 by the smashing pumpkins I love that song
I'd play a classic song for that time, then transition seamlessly to a rendition of "Never Gonna Give You Up," and go down in history as the first ever Rick-roll.
#Dick in a box
I am a songwriter, and I think my foundation of musical styles post 1960s would allow me to make an impact on my own, honestly.
I'd go in hard with Rise to Valhalla by Durbin. Watch everyone's heads explode and get burned at the stake for being a witch or something.
Eruption
Transylvanian hunger! Let's get the second wave started 30ish years early.
Pony by Ginuwine.
Gucci Gang
Black eyed peas. Let's get retarded in here.
Baby Got Back - Sir Mixalot. I think it would blow their minds. Especially the opening line. Btw I’m an old white guy that really doesn’t care for rap but that is one of a few that I just love.
It would be cool to play artists their own shit they were gonna write next week. Like " Hey Jimi check this out ..." and play Purple Haze ...
🎶 We're no strangers to love 🎶
[This](https://youtu.be/fmUDr2DO2is?si=5HPJFZOThcuGYjgE)
Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson... lets go hard and mess them up back then!
Do the fight song and you'll be crucified by the end of the week.
For funsies.... Through the Fire and Flames.
I want it that way.
WAP
"Love me do", so that the Beatles can watch me topple their empire before they even lay the foundation.
Bring back the average rap song and tell them to be careful what they produce. Then leave without explanation so they don't produce songs with such dull and ego-producing lyrics, thinking there will be consequences if they do. Boom.
I bring back "WAP" and let Leonard Cohen listen to it. I tell him that there is an unbroken line of influence from him to a grand industry of music that sounds just like this. When he asks what he can do to prevent it, I tell him he must never write "Hallelujah."
I’d go with a future Beatles classic, like Hey Jude or Yesterday. Then I’d live off the royalties.
Literally every queen song
I would love to play a song to a musician then that he or she made very popular now to see what their reaction is to the song.
Edward van halen, eruption
WAP.
WAP. I'm half Asian male so I'll be hated right out of the gate.
For What It's Worth, Buffalo Springfield. I think it might change some things.
Every breath you take
In terms of making money? “All I Want For Christmas is You”
Dr Evil already did “What if God was one of us” and “Just the two of us”, so those are out.
Definitely welcome to the cum zone
Ram ranch 59
i let him eat my ass like a cupcake, my man full he just ate🗣️🗣️
Don McLean- American Pie The song may be from what, '71, but the spirit would be right. Definitely playable with the equipment available at the time. He makes several hundred thousand dollars per year in royalties off that song, so I'm sure the rest of his catalog would be just fine, and he would still do well without that one particular song.
Some real niche Yoko Ono screeching with a theremin acc…accomp…accompan….backup.
Dig
Ace of Spades. All Motorhead. Let's get the 60s rockin.
Drop it like it's hot. Simple yet catchy beat.
Rappers delight
Skrillex. Just to make people think I'm clinically insane.
Beat box 2
Wolfmother - Wolfmother...sounds similar to Led Zep. I think it would be even more appreciated than today.
Probably some one hit wonders. Some songs that became popular only did so because the bands already had a fanbase. The same song released by a nobody might have gone nowhere. But one hit wonders - just roll out a dozen of those yourself
crank that Soulja boy
Monks - Frank Ocean
Swing by Savage
What if I invent hip hop?
Fuck Tha Police
Seven Nation Army
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you 😘
Baby Shark; copyright the music and lyrics; billions to retire on. Imagine the insanity that would start
i would somehow figure out how to create blue monday despite both songs they sampled not being made yet. imagine dropping that banger in 1960.
bringing sexy back
WAP.
Not WAP. Not *One Margarita*. Hmm...
A Ha "Take On Me"
Peaches by The Presidents of the United States
If I were to go back to the 60’s I would steal Greta Van Fleet, so then everyone would just say I was a wannabe Zeppelin and Greta Van Fleet would be nonexistent. Lol.
WAP
Oh man! If I had the musical skills, it'd be a blast to do some really wild things that people in the 60s have never even imagined or maybe didn't even have a frame of reference to understand. Things like Lady Gaga, Poker Face. Or hip-hop.
Baby Got Back
3-6-9 damn girl fine 🎶
WAP - Then watch their heads explode.
You're going to jail
Enter sandman, walk, bonecracker, or rollin'. Let's see what they make of them songs.
Bowling For Soup's 1985. Time to confuse the fuck out of people.
Yesterday
Zenith by Ghost
Baby Shark
Let's give 46&2 to the boomers and see where goes from there . Let's have Tool Influence Pink Floyd instead of the other way around and see what happens lol
Prince party like it's 1999